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Thursday, November 22, 2007

It may now be proclaimed that every Third Thursday of November may now and forever be a day of national sorrow and mourning for the once great pre-Bill Gates city of Seattle, Washington. Here are just a few of the reasons why Seattle has been selected.Seattle public schools want a side of political correctness served on your Thanksgiving table. Washington state's largest school district sent letters to teachers and other employees suggesting Thanksgiving should be "a time of mourning" for its Native American students. The memo, from Caprice Hollins, the district's director of Equity, Race & Learning Support, included an attachment to a paper titled "Deconstructing the Myths of 'The First Thanksgiving.'"It includes 11 "myths" disputing everything from what was served at the first Thanksgiving (no mashed potatoes or cranberries) and who provided the food to the nature of the Pilgrims themselves: Myth No. 3 calls the colonists "rigid fundamentalists" who came to the New World "fully intending to take the land away from its native inhabitants." FoxNews.ComThis is not the only reason to wail and gnash teeth over Seattle. Washington State Senator "Baghdad"Jim McDermott has also caused undeniable suffering and pain to the American people,especially our own United States military in a time of war. Mcdermott is one of the most pronounced anti-winning-the-war Democrats and has led his state to become one of the most left leaning.

BG (Before Gates) Seattle was an unassuming frontier city inhabited by nice folks. Despite some good that Bill Gates has done by blessing us with Windows (not Vista), charitable donations to the third world, and throwing tons of money at public schools to play and experiment with, Mr. Gates dragged soulless geeks into the Seattle area who, despite their intelligence, were very retarded in the knowledge of more heavenly things- like good old godly conservatism.. Seattle has since become one of the most liberal cities in the United States and is proud of it. Lots of money, no soul. It is very possible that famed grunger Curt Cobain was musically expressing the angst of someone growing up in a community which was fast becoming as lifeless as an Operating System or as reprobate as San Francisco.

There are so many reasons to mourn and pray for Seattle and Dorothy Parvaz, an editor and columnist for the Seattle Post Intelligence (they once had some intelligence, I have heard), is just another reason to weep over the city. From Newsbuster.Org Tod Huston:

"Dorothy Parvaz, a columnist, blogger and member of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board, posted a short P-I blog post in which she sympathetically says she understands how someone would want to burn a church down because it is "an oppressive institution." And she isn't just shrugging her shoulders over the threatened arson of a church, but the planned arson of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, a landmark building on Nob Hill. Is there a little hatemongering going on against religion in the Post-Intelligencer? Sure seems so.

We've met Miss Parvaz here on Newsbusters before, the last time when she said that GOP voters were "White, male, middle-aged and slightly stupid," and intimated that terrorism was nothing to worry about by calling the WOT "Bush's asinine 'war on terror.'" Well, this time she is ready to "understand" the burning of churches in a blog post about the arrest of a mentally suspect man named Paul Addis who was the goof responsible for the too early torching The Man figure at the last pot-head festival Burning Man 2007. This time, though, he meant to burn down the famous Frisco Cathedral."

So, let it hereby be proclaimed that every Third Thursday Of Every November be remembered with sadness and travail for the once great city of Seattle. Anyone celebrating this occasion may display the following photo of the guru who launched Seattle from nothingness to somethingness, sans a soul.

Could you please explain to me how much longer you can continue to be such patsies for these pseudo victim complaints? Whenever an unprivileged minority tells you to jump, you instinctively ask, "how high"? and then proceed to grovel and twist until you look so foolish, that normal (nonacademics and nonjournalists ) people would feel quite ashamed for such cowering, cowardice, and lack of conscience.

Looking for nooses and homosexual haters has become the number one field of study in your diversity-less university as well as the media. You so easily discount the sensibilities of conservatives and Christians, as if we are so polite that we would never be as great a threat as the pseudo victims who cry rape and racism like they did at Duke University. Have you learned nothing from that incident? It is so easy now to discriminate against WASPS who actually pay a large part of your salary and other university expenses. The last I checked, white folks also buy and read newspapers. Your prejudice against us has evolved from the ridiculous to the bizarre.

The entire concept that white people cannot suffer discrimination since they, only, have the power and are extra privileged is hogwash. Your antidiversity diversity philosophy has greatly offended all of middle class America which has seen black people enjoy more power in government, politics, and business than ever before. Many cities such as my own have a plethora of black government officials, newspaper editors/columnists, teachers, etc. so how could it possibly be thought that they have "no power?" There are so many extra liberties and concessions offered to minorities that they are, indeed, more privileged on campus, and are using this liberal ordained power to exacerbate racial divisions. Our city public school system, for instance, throws over $15,000 toward inner city students who perform very poorly, don't show up for school, or when they do attend class, it is nothing but pandemonium. How could it not be considered privilege or power to aquire so much money for these students ($5,000 more than other students) who fight, sleep, and have sex in the classroom? My city, composed of an all Democrat administration and council, refuses to take action against the 40 gangs (black) which virtually have gripped the city in fear. Am I stereotyping? Absolutely. I am sick of hearing for years that "the white man enslaved us," and "the man won't give us jobs," so that, "we have to deal drugs and steal." They have no other choice because of white privilege, they say.

The universities and media must be consciously aware that many more crimes are perpetrated against whites by blacks than white against black, so who is really committing the hate crimes? The best I can say about your overt prejudice and assault on nonminorities is that many nonminority Democrats are backing off from you people who have become their natural enemies.

Listening to black bigots like Al Sharpton and these hateful, unmerciful black campus groups has become more than tiresome. They have milked this white cow for all its worth, and I am hearing that middle America has lost its patience with these shakedown artists. I suggest they find a new hobby. We are not listening any more.

The Duke nonrape case and the Jena Six boys rewarded for beating a white boy unconscious, not to mention the urban terrorists that have taken over the streets of my own city of Akron, Ohio, has tilted public sympathy against these thugs - on campus and off.

University administrations have been willing accomplices to this conservative over-kill and their budgets need to be cut. Thank God, the pony-tailed Marxist professors of the sixties are retiring or dying off. Only then can there be a revival of a more equitable liberal arts teaching philosophy and administration which will not yield to every faked "racial" incident.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

The VA Secretary For Memorial Affairs, William Tuerk, has not rescinded the memo which outlawed the mentioning of God in the veteran's flag folding ceremony. There was an adjustment made by the VA which vaguely authorizes the traditional language if requested by the veteran or his family at the time of burial. Active duty Military Honor Guards may still be prohibited from using the standard language in the ceremony.

"At issue is the "13-fold recital" sometimes read by members of an honor guard as an American flag is folded at a veteran's graveside.At each fold of the flag concepts including life, country and heart are invoked, as well as God. There are separate references to the Jewish God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to the Christian trinity.It was the 11th fold, which when honoring Jewish veterans, makes a reference to the God of Abraham, that provoked a complaint, Mondello said. The complaint focused not on the content of the recital but on an error in the text used by cemetery volunteers which identified Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as gods."

The VA needs to still hear from anyone concerned about this bureacratic snafu which was initiated because of just one complaint. Fax the Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson or Under Secretary William Tuerk at 1-202-273-4880. My fax below.

DEAR @R; As a disabled in Vietnam, retired Marine, I would like to express my deep regret that Mr. William Tuerk, the Secretary For Veterans Affairs, has decided to eliminate the solemnity from the Veterans Flag Folding Ceremony by negating any reference to even a generic God - all because of one complaint from Riverside, California - which is on fire at this very moment.

He could at least have allowed for each and every veteran or family to request the inclusion of the language which honors the veteran's God.I understand that Mr. Tuerk is an "bioethicist" as well as a lawyer. This may explain why such poor judgment was made.

The overwhelming majority of veterans that I fought with in Vietnam were doing so for "God and Country." I am sorry that Veterans Affairs may think that unethical, but that was the case.

I will be also forwarding this to President Bush as well as members of Congress.May I say, God Bless?JC Akron OH